Sinatra : up and running / Alan Harris and Konstantin Haase ; editors, Simon St. Laurent and Mike Hendrickson ; illustrator, Robert Romano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harris, Alan (Software engineer)

Contributor:

Haase, Konstantin.

St. Laurent, Simon.

Hendrickson, Mike.

Romano, Robert (Illustrator), illustrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Web site development.

Computer software--Development.

Computer software.

Ruby (Computer program language).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (120 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Sebastopol, CA : Oreilly & Associates Inc, 2011.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Take advantage of Sinatra, the Ruby-based web application library and domain-specific language used by Heroku, GitHub, Apple, Engine Yard, and other prominent organizations. With this concise book, you will quickly gain working knowledge of Sinatra and its minimalist approach to building both standalone and modular web applications. Sinatra serves as a lightweight wrapper around Rack middleware, with syntax that maps closely to functions exposed by HTTP verbs, which makes it ideal for web services and APIs. If you have experience building applications with Ruby, you'll quickly

Contents:

Table of Contents; Preface; Who This Book Is For; How This Book Is Organized; The Basics; Digging Deeper; Hands On; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Books Online; How to Contact Us; Chapter 1. Taking the Stage; Characteristics of Sinatra; Is It a Framework?; Does It Implement MVC?; Who's Using It?; What Does a Production Project Look Like?; What's the Catch?; Are These Skills Transferrable?; Installation; Thin; Up and Running; Breaking Down the Syntax; Testing with Telnet; Rock, Paper, Scissors or "The Shape of Things to Come"; Summary; Chapter 2. Fundamentals

RoutingHypertext Transfer Protocol; Verbs; Common Route Definition; Many URLs, Similar Behaviors; Routes with Parameters; Routes with Query String Parameters; Routes with Wildcards; The First Sufficient Match Wins; Routes with Regular Expressions; Halting a Request; Passing a Request; Redirecting a Request; Static Files; Views; Inline Templates; External View Files; External Views in Subfolders; Passing Data into Views; Filters; Handling Errors; 404 Not Found; 500 Internal Server Error; Configuration; HTTP Headers; The headers Method; Exploring the request Object; Caching

Setting Headers ManuallySettings Headers via expires; ETags; Generating ETags; Weak ETags; Sessions; Destroying a Session; Cookies; Attachments; Streaming; Keeping the Connection Open; Finite Streaming; Summary; Chapter 3. A Peek Behind the Curtain; Application and Delegation; The Inner Self; Where Does get Come From?; Exploring the Implementation; Helpers and Extensions; Creating Sinatra Extensions; Helpers; Helpers Without Modules; Combining Helpers and Extensions; Request and Response; Rack; Sinatra Without Sinatra; Rack It Up; Middleware; Sinatra and Middleware; Dispatching

Dispatching ReduxChanging Bindings; Summary; Chapter 4. Modular Applications; Subclassing Sinatra; Running Modular Applications; Using run!; With rackup; About Settings; Settings and Classes; Subclassing Subclasses; Route Inheritance; Architecture; Dynamic Subclass Generation; Better Rack Citizenship; Chaining Classes; Middleware Chain; Cascade; With a Router; On Return Values; Using Sinatra as Router; Extensions and Modular Applications; Helpers; Extensions; Summary; Chapter 5. Hands On: Your Own Blog Engine; Workflow Concept; File-Based Posts; Git for Distribution; Semistatic Pages

The ImplementationDisplaying Blog Posts; Rendering Markdown; Generating articles; Adding an index; Adding a basic layout; Git Integration; Regenerating content; Pulling changes; Proper cache headers; Glueing Everything Together; Rack It Up!; Setting it up on GitHub; Setting it up on Bitbucket; Using a post-receive hook; What about Heroku?; Summary

Notes:

"Ruby for the web, simply"--cover.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781449323974

1449323979

9781306813228

1306813220

9781449323981

1449323987

OCLC:

767502483